“We watched ‘Animal House’ and played Michael Jackson’s dance game for the Wii that night”

The First Time I met Susie I was sitting in McDonald’s in a group, and she just came up to my table and started talking to me and my friends like she had known us for years. We had a few mutual friends, and we hung out a few times throughout high school. I hadn’t seen her for over a year when one day, over the Summer, I was out kayaking with my friend, and she was fishing off of Satterly Landing with her mom. It was just as if she had hung out with me the day before. We stayed and went fishing with her for a while until she invited us back to her house to swim in her pool and have dinner.

We watched “Animal House” and played Michael Jackson’s dance game for the Wii that night — both things that are 100 times more fun with Susie’s attitude and sense of humor. After that one day of running into Susie by chance, I was lucky enough to have re-kindled our friendship, and got to know her and the Facini family for the rest of the Summer. I’m so glad I got to have a Summer and Fall worth of Susie stories that will last me a lifetime.

-Brian Campbell